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George Young

@vitageorge.bsky.social
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Woman/Bicon Words: IGN, GamesRadar+, ESPN, VGIM, Siliconera & more / #VitaIsland / German, French & JP speaker💕My cats georginayoung00atgmaildotcom

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 8h
We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs
Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026
Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Are you or have you ever been a narrative designer (as your official job title)? I would like to interview you for a video! Pls reply to this if you’re interested ❤️.
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James Archer @jamesandstuff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Games and tech freelancers : I am once again asking for freelance pitches for PC hardware features (not reviews or guides, sorry!) on RPS. Email's in bio, genAI users need not apply (it's much, much easier to spot than you think)
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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Guardian is doing some major hiring right now! If you have 2-3 years' experience in journalism, media and/or content creation, you can apply for the Digital Journalism Scheme - full time roles including 20% training time, £48k pa workwithus.theguardian.com/digital-jour...
workwithus.theguardian.com
Digital Journalist Scheme
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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...
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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press
YouTube video by People Make Games
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don't know why today is bisexual day. We all know that bisexuality first emerged on July 17, 1995.
An old cover of Newsweek with the title "Bisexuality. Not Gay. Not Straight. A New Sexual Identity Emerges."
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My best friend asked for honest feedback on her cooking. I said that she needed more liquid in the sauce before putting it in the oven because it was too dry. My partner said it was weird that I gave such precise feedback. What does the internet hivemind think?
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Lewis | ICO Partners @persistentworld.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📣 [Job Opportunity] I'm currently looking for a Lore Writer for a contract position to write and produce a digital lore book for a famed AA shooter. If you've experience in this field, or know someone who would be a good fit, please DM me. #videogamejobs #videogames #gamejobs
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Pandan | GearGrit @westonmitchell.com · 06/09/2026
any video, 3d blender person want a quick gig? I need basically a non poop version of this logo for our studio hit me up if u know any1 or are that person thanks love u ( i made this in blender and im just not equipped to make it good )
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I got to try out Alien Isolation 2. The prologue was too UI heavy and hand-holdy for me, but I think the team will smash it by the final game. www.thebiglead.com/alien-isolat...
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Alien Isolation 2 hands-on preview – Living in the darkest timeline
The first thing you're aware of is the rain. The sky is dark, but it's the downpour pounding on your face that truly obscures your vision. The rocky terrain is alien, but the beacon in the distance is...
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I'm making videos for foster cats hoping to get adopted now.
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I need confirmation from people that have never lived in Asia. So I know that in Europe people don't squat when waiting around like people do in Asia, but I just saw a short that said like western people can't squat? Like if you did this it would be difficult/take effort/be uncomfortable.
Image of a middle-aged Asian woman squatting.in the street with her elbows on her knees in a comfortable resting position. Her bum is not touching the pavement.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 19/08/2026
NYC! This is an ALL CALL! Help needed for these cats. Please. The owner has just passed and they need help NOW. If you know of cat people, please get in touch!
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Yesterday I finished my 311th Vita game so I'm over halfway through the backlog now.
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Maybe it's Baader-Meinhof but like how many men have taken children and women up mountains to their deaths despite others telling them it's too dangerous to hike that day? Like pushing them to their deaths when they want to go home? Makes the dudes who leave their dates on mountains look kinda.
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Isn't it weird how a few years out Skull & Bones is still the only AAAA game.
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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Electronic service providers in the US are required to report instances of apparent child abuse when they become aware of them. Here are the number of reports filed by some game corps: Roblox - 65,381 Sony Interactive Entertainment - 9,074 Microsoft (Xbox products) - 1,652 Nintendo of America - 1
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
1000xResist is coming to Switch and if you haven't taken the plunge yet, this is your sign to do so.
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I love watching video essays on old games but frequently they comment that "journos are bad at games" like almost everyone says it at some point in the videos. Does it all come from that time Dean Takahashi played Cuphead? I don't know of any other meme about a journo being bad at games
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AmazingAnndroid (check pinned) @amazingandroid.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This article features the best and worst corporate comment of all time and is also one of the brightest reflections of the industry right now. thisweekinvideogames.com/news/saber-i...
thisweekinvideogames.com
Saber Interactive Denies Replacing Lead Writer With ChatGPT, CEO Responds to Accusations
In denying that it replaced a former Lead Writer so it could "use ChatGPT", Saber acknowledged the use of AI in an "experimental" mode.
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
On Oleanna
My high school English teacher was a paedophile. Well, is a paedophile. He's still alive, he still teaches English at my old high school, and he's still a paedophile. He was caught trying to film the girls' football team changing after he'd taken them to his house in the school's minibus. They were 11 years old. That happened after he taught me high school English, but I already knew he was a paedophile when I entered his class. He had groomed my friend when she was 15. He messaged her on MSN Messenger daily. He asked her about her sexual preferences. He knew she was a virgin. He was banned from communicating with students via MSN, and he started emailing her. Daily. He never molested her. Other students weren't as lucky.

He taught me Oleanna.

There are a number of different texts on the curriculum and he wanted us to study Oleanna. He wanted to shape our view of it. He succeeded. For a time at least. I read Oleanna now with a fully developed brain and it is telling. It tells on the paedophile who still teaches English at my high school. It tells on the author, David Mamet. It tells on every man who watched or read it shaking with anger.Oleanna is the story of a university student who is struggling with one of her courses. She is failing and it is critical that she succeeds, but the teaching is insufficient. She doesn't understand the material. She approaches the course's professor in his office in the hopes of gaining understanding. He is distracted. He isn't listening. He's closing on a new house. He isn't concerned with the fact that he is failing at the job he's on the precipice of earning tenure for. How successful he is at teaching the material is irrelevant to how successful he is at his profession.

When he finally looks up, when he finally sees her, he approaches. He grasps her by the shoulders. He tells her that if she returns to the office, several times, for private lessons he will let her pass his class. In fact, he will give her an A. He leaves and she is unsure how to process the interaction. It makes her feel strange. Uncomfortable.

She returns after she has filed a formal complaint for sexual harassment. The complaint threatens his tenure. As he begs her to withdraw it, she stands firm. She recites to him other sexual comments he has made during class. She tries to leave and he blocks the door, grabbing her firmly by the wrists as she screams.

The final time she returns to the office is on his final day. She has escalated her claim to attempted rape. He pleads with her once more and she refuses. He is a ruined man. His treatment of her led to him losing his job, losing his wife and family, and losing any future prospects. Impotent, he grasps for power in the only way he has left. He beats her. He viciously beats her. And as she lays bloodied on the floor she has the final word before the curtain falls. "Yes. That's right."That is how I teach you Oleanna.

I teach you Oleanna this way as a woman who has been propositioned by a man without him admitting to the true intention of the offer. I teach you Oleanna this way as a woman who has been barred from leaving a room by a man. I teach you Oleanna this way as a woman who has laid bloody on the floor beneath a man after he failed to bend me to his will with his words.

The paedophile who teaches English at my high school taught me Oleanna in a different way. He taught me Oleanna as a man who had been accused of inappropriately propositioning a girl, despite never doing so explicitly. He taught me Oleanna as a man who had offered girls to stay behind after school so that he could teach them the material he'd failed to properly explain during his class. He taught me Oleanna as a man that would later receive a three month suspension for trying to film the girls' football team changing after he'd taken them to his house in the school's minibus.

He's still alive, he still teaches English at my old high school, and he's still a paedophile.

Yes. That's right.
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I hadn't had periods for a while so I went to the doctor. After the exam he was just looking through some papers. I asked him if I was pregnant. He gave me a quizzical look as was just like "no, you're barren" and that's how I found out. Smile.
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Edwin Evans-Thirlwell @edwinet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A more specific call for article input: I'm very keen to talk to a Mongolian historian who can talk about the cultural significance of the Yam networks - what it means to portray and celebrate those institutions today.
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
At this point do I just have to accept that people call the protagonist of Ico, Ico even though it's wrong? Kind of like how I've accepted people saying "hold down the fort" or pronouncing the t in often.
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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Kotaku is looking for bilingual freelance writers covering gaming who are based in Japan. If that's you or someone you know, please DM me!
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
People are continuing to talk about how EA removed College Football's single-player microtransactions, but players still don't have the accessibility options that were paywalled www.thebiglead.com/ea-college-f...
thebiglead.com
EA College Football 27 removes microtransactions but players are still losing out
20 years ago Bethesda began selling $2.50 gold horse armor for Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. Gamers mocked Bethesda for its greed publicly, but privately not everyone was immune to the pull of the sparkl...
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Vooks @vooks.net · 14/07/2026
Interview: Chatting with Go-Go Town! developer Prideful Sloth Prideful Sloth 🦥 making Go-Go Town! www.vooks.net/interv...
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Joe S. Farrar @joesfarrar.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Least professional artist search post. Reposts please? 🥺
Art search text as an image to stop BOTS.
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A sleepy black kitten on top of a basket
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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
hiring two rare+cool positions at Fangamer right now: 🧸 Product Development Manager: responsible for taking on licenses and getting merch made! 🗣️ Partnership Manager: communicate with our AAA and indie partners about merch licenses & plans RTs always appreciated 🙇 www.fangamer.com/pages/jobs
fangamer.com
Jobs
Fangamer is an independent video game merchandiser with its headquarters (both office and warehouse) in Tucson, AZ.
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The last few weeks I've started seeing people posting AI cringe on here, and I really thought the point of this platform was to get away from that shite.
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Debug Magazine @debugmag.com · 04/07/2026
Looking for a pixel artist with availability for an “Amiga Demoscene” piece in the magazine
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
People are all talking about the end of PlayStation physicals, but naturally I wanted to talk about the end of the Vita store. vitaparadisa.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/y...
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You’ll own nothing and be happy – Vita store shut down and end of physical media announced on the same day
Over the last few years the gaming industry has shat its pants. Aside from the complete moral bankruptcy that suits don’t seem to consider an issue, it’s utterly short-sighted when it c…
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
People write these things with their full pussy and think they've made a great point. I genuinely wonder if they talk to people like this in real life, and if those around them are concerned about their social media brain rot.
A comment that reads "Paying for sensitivity consultants and HRT for the graphics engine programmers ain't cheap, taking away the disc drives will enable further efforts towards an inclusive workforce"
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The latest Steins Gate Reboot info made me sick. WHAT DO YOU MEAN PC 98 GRAPHICS AND A PARSER AHHHH
Steins Gate but with 8bit graphics like it is on an old PC
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I charged one of my Vitas like 2 months ago, played it and left it on standby. I came back to it today and the battery was dead?!?! Why is everything shittier than it used to be?
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Okay well I need about a million in ps store credit thanks blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/a...
blog.playstation.com
An update on PlayStation Store for PS3 and PS Vita
Changes start this year in select markets, followed by global changes in 2027.
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dash. @dashiellwood.com · 23/06/2026
If you're a developer (of any size) with a game to share you're welcome to send press releases / keys to my email dash.wood@futurenet.com There's no guarantee that everything I play will be featured, but it is a shot at getting featured on the most visited consumer tech publication in the UK!
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A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
📢 Help Needed! 📢 For the next issue of APWOT we're cataloging some independent games events from around the world! 🌍 If you know of a cool indie event, venue or festival please let us know! Bonus points if it's from the southern hemisphere!
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Chris Tapsell @christapsell.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Here's a rare one: we're hiring a News Editor at Eurogamer! The role is hybrid in London, though there can be some wiggle room on this for a worldie of a candidate. We're after someone who can not only proof, but understand how to push a story forwards originally. www.eurogamer.net/eurogamer-is...
eurogamer.net
Eurogamer is hiring a News Editor
We're after a top-class newshound to take us into a new era here at Eurogamer.
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jasmine james 🔜 Barcelona Game Fest @jasmo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Time Extension are hiring a News Editor www.timeextension.com/news/2026/06...
timeextension.com
Site News: Want To Work On Time Extension? Now's Your Chance
We're looking for a talented and experienced News Editor to join the team
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Matthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 19/06/2026
Know retro? Know news? Time Extension is hiring a news editor:
timeextension.com
Site News: Want To Work On Time Extension? Now's Your Chance
We're looking for a talented and experienced News Editor to join the team
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Matthew Reynolds @mattreyn.games · 19/06/2026
Big position up for grabs for UK folks - Eurogamer is hiring a News Editor:
jobs.jobvite.com
IGN is looking for News Editor, Eurogamer.
IGN is looking for News Editor, Eurogamer. Learn more or Jobvite a friend.
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Mark Medina @markmedina.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
IGN is hiring for a UK based guides writer! This is a full time remote role with a focus on keeping our decades-deep game guides archive up-to-date! Apply here! www.ziffdavis.com/careers/jobs...
ziffdavis.com
Search Jobs - Ziff Davis
We hire only the best and brightest because we know it takes great people to make a great company. We embrace the power of collaboration, have an entrepreneurial spirit and promote a work environment ...
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I know there are a billion showcases on right now but you owe yourself a watch of the Story Rich Showcase. Some of the best upcoming games in there. My favourite showcase by miles so far.
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George Young @vitageorge.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
As a Rayman Legends sicko I went into trying out Retold a sceptic. After a few hours I saw it is very much its own thing. www.gamewatcher.com/rayman-legen...
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Rayman Legends Retold First Impressions | GameWatcher
Rayman Legends Retold is entirely different from the original it's remaking, though it keeps the reactive, fluid controls and some of the same levels.
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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 02/06/2026
📚 Applications for LudoNarraCon 2026 are now open! The original Steam festival returns for its 8th edition from Oct 8-12 PT, celebrating story-rich games and the developers who bring them to life ✍️ Submit your game for Official Selection or the Narrative Game Sale below (closes June 28 PT)! 👇
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LudoNarraCon 2026: Game Submission | Notion
Hosted by Notion Sites — The easiest way to get a website up and running.
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